1st Edition
Development, Technology and Flexibility Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Development, Technology and Flexibility (1992) is concerned with forecasting the use of innovation within manufacturing industries. It assesses the factors that inhibit and facilitate the implementation of new technologies and organisational techniques. The focus of the study is on Brazilian industry, whose mixture of advanced and traditional social and economic structures makes its experience... Read more
1. Introduction and Analytical Framework 2. The Use of Modernising Innovations: Analysing Circumstances and Prospects 3. The Brazilian Style of Development 4. Changes in Industrial Structure, Growth and Competitiveness: Expectations for the Future 5. Determinants of Innovation 6. The Diffusion of Modernising Innovations 7. The Implications of Modernising Innovations 8. Employment and Skills 9. Degradation, Continuation or Transformation?
Biography
João Carlos Ferraz, Howard Rush and Ian Miles
